Comment | Today's NSW election is about good and wholesome things like hospitals and schools. So why does the affair feel so enervating? | JakeSaulwick
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One explanation is that politics in NSW is fracturing along similar lines to those worldwide; same-old governments no longer cut it. “This is a sign that voters are drifting away from the centrist political narrative that the Coalition and Labor both occupy,” says, the assistant vice-chancellor for strategy and policy at Western Sydney University. The unemployment rate might be low but “people aren’t feeling it”. After years of low wage growth, the public is demanding more.
Similarly, when Sydney’s powerful boofhead lobby insisted the economy would sink without marketing material for a recently conceived horse race being emblazoned on the Opera House sails, to whom did Berejiklian defer? The public servant with the responsibility to protect the integrity of the building, and who had well-articulated policies for knocking back the race? No.
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